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CourierThe Case Middle School

Volume 4Issue 2

December2008

Produced by the Students of Punahou School , 1601 Punahou Street, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822

Volume 4Issue 2

Volume 5Issue 2

Happy Holidays!

We CAN and We Will

By Lynn Nguyen & Hannah Broderick

During November, most private schools on O‘ahu celebrated

their Thanksgiving by getting their faculty members and students to donate food cans to the food drive. Punahou is no exception to this tradition.

This year is especially special. In the Case Middle School, the Im-pact Club hosted a “Cantastic” day. This is a day of fun and games. The best part is that it was all for a good cause, which was supporting hunger and homelessness. Stu-dents brought in cans such as sar-dines, Vienna sausage, soups, and much more. The students then got into groups and built structures out of the cans. The structures were then judged on a variety of categories.

The Barack Obama structure took first place, Pacman Can took second place, Go Puns! took third place, Phi Pascal’s Staircase took fourth, and the Living Room (not shown) took fifth place. Also, students raised 7,000 pounds of canned foods—a new Punahou record.

During the Cantastic event, some representatives from each seventh and eighth grade team space participated in a certain game or activity such as “Gimme Gimme,” the scavenger hunt, or the balanced meal game. These activities were designed to inspire

the middle school student body to bring in more cans to help the hungry and homeless people. The events were held on the basketball court and students flocked to the court to compete in the games.

Mrs. Hong and Mrs. Kawano-Ching (K-C) were in charge of the event. The Impact Club also helped with this event during lunch and even after school when a movie was available for those who wished to attend. The fee was one can per person.

After the Cantastic events were over, we interviewed one of the people who helped make the Can-tastic Day possible, Mrs. K-C.

Will the Tennis Courts Be a Go?

By Alison Kamikawa

With the dust screens up around courts 7, 8 and 9,

people are noticing that there is going to be construction up at the tennis courts soon.

By early next year, the upper ten-nis courts will be demolished.

The upper three tennis courts, called the Spalding tennis courts, will be demolished due to the new Kindergarten-First Grade Project. Where the new PE Pavilion and play area will be built for Grades K-1 which is where the courts are cur-rently located.

Punahou is planning to build two new tennis courts in the area right below the water tank up on Rocky Hill. The area is also known as the old Rifle Range site.

“The plan has been designed. Now the project will have to be approved by the Board of Trustees and Administration,” explained Mrs. Charlotte Kamikawa, Assistant Di-rector of Physical Plant.

Principal Walker said the plan has had long and careful scrutiny.

“The decision to relocate the ten-nis courts was made after consulta-tion with architects and their civil engineers, members of the school administrative team, the Board of Trustees, and representatives from the tennis program. The process included an extensive usage analy-sis which was was shaped by the various constituencies with a vested interest in the tennis program. The Board of Trustees reviewed a host of options and alternatives, and when considered in light of the K-1 educational program, it was deemed that siting the new K-1 campus in an open, flat space enabled a design that created the adjacencies that fosters the collaborative, safe, and sustainable environment the program calls for. The design work for the K-1 facility included the plan-ning for the relocation of the tennis courts, the details of which are being finalized as part of the overall project,” he explained.

The Spalding tennis courts will for sure be demolished whether the plan is approved or not.

The proposed site of the two new tennis courts.

Courtesy of Charlotte Kamikawa

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Art for Foodat the Kirsch Gallery

By Jordan McCreary & Eric Takiguchi

Many of you know Mr. Mosher, one of the art teachers here

at Case Middle School. But did you know that he recently held an art exhibit that raised food for the hungry?

Actually, he and his entire family—wife Melissa Kim Mosher and son Dee Mosher—created this art exhibit which also included his son’s senior year community ser-vice project.

The theme of the show was “How We Learn from Each Other.” The art was shown in Kirsch gallery, and all of it was created by the Mosher family.

In the Academy, students must take a social studies class that requires commu-nity service credits.

Dee saw this art exhibit as a great opportunity to show his interest in art and do his community service project.

He encouraged people to bring in canned goods to re-

ceive an “art card” with a student’s artwork on the cover.

One day, Dee spent over 13 hours making Xerox copies of the cards. Some of the art displayed was Dee’s own digital artwork.

Other pieces included paintings of vases and other objects, and the ac-tual subjects were set by the paint-ings themselves for comparison.

Thanks to Punahou and the public, they had a successful drive for the Food Bank and gathered almost 200 pounds of food.

Above, Dee Mosher’s “Blue Vase with Pumpkin.” At right, Mr. Mosh-er’s “Syracuse Farmer’s Market.”

Photos courtesy of Mr. Mosher

Coin Collectors On The Prowl!

By Rhiann Sato

All fifty states need their quar-ters, right? Well, it’s finally

here, the Hawaii quarter of 2008 has finally come out of the U.S. mint! This quarter signals the close of the 10-year fifty-state quarter program.

On the back side, the quarter features the year that Hawaii of-ficially became part of the U.S.A. It also features King Kamehameha I, and an imprint of the main Hawai-ian islands in our chain.

On the left, the quarter reads “UA MAU KE EA O KA ‘AINA I KA PONO” which means “The life of the land is perpetuated in righ-teousness.”

The imprint of King Kamehame-ha represented “Aloha Spirit.”

Another image choice was a hula dancer representing “Dia-mond Head.”

The last choice was of a surfer representing “Surfing—Hawaii’s gift to the world.”

People were able to vote for the design of these three choices, but

Kamehameha won over the other two on the online poll. These three were narrowed down by the gov-ernment from the 400 suggestions sent in. They chose five main ones and debated.

Here is something weird: ac-cording to the government, the Hawaii quarter is said to weigh somewhat less than the other 49 quarters.

I’m sure no one bothered to put the quarter on

a scale and measure, since no-body can really tell.

Al-though millions

of quarters have already

been sent out into the public, people still make a very big deal about getting just one. Coin collectors went mad.

So, if you do happen to receive a Hawaii quarter in your change, keep it for yourself!

With three less tennis courts, the tennis program has had to decrease the enrollment for this year.

“Any time there is a cut back on facilities, there is always a huge impact,” said Mr. Bernard Gusman, the Director of Tennis. “This is a tremendous loss for us.”

They have had to cut back about 482 players from enrolling into their tennis programs because they will only have the six courts.

In the past, with nine tennis courts, there were about 2,626 players enrolled in their programs.

They have to now consider that they will be losing three courts by early next year, so they cut back their enrollment to 2,144.

The many activities include PE classes, summer school, the Jr. novice tournament, private lessons, group lessons after school and all ILH teams.

All grades have been affected by the loss of the Spalding Courts.

One of the biggest cuts in their programs was the private lessons. They had gone from around 202 enrollments to 100 this year.

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Sugar High for the Sugar Drive

By Suzanna Bradley

Recently at Punahou we have had a sugar drive.

The sugar was collected by the eleventh grade students from No-vember 11th to November 14th.

Many years ago, all the school would have had to do was drive

down to the sugarcane fields and pro-cessing plant or to a local market and pick some up from there.

After all, sugar was one of our largest exports at the time coming from compa-nies like the O‘ahu Sugar Company which had an output of about 75,000 tons of sugar every year.

In fact, Punahou was founded only seven years

after the first successful sugar plantation here in Hawaii.

Now the school depends upon students and parents driving to a grocery store to buy sugar now imported from other states and countries.

Annual sugar drives are held in order to collect enough sugar to make mouth-watering malasadas at the Punahou Carnival.

Every year, the school collects almost 4,000 pounds of sugar. That is two tons worth of sweet-ness for malasadas, not to men-tion other goodies.

Did we get as much sugar this year as we do other years?

Mrs. Leeann Ichimura (the per-son running the sugar drive and the carnival) responded that, yes, the school did get as much sugar this year as last year ... and all of it comes from donations.

According to Ichimura, the school will not have to buy a single granule of sugar.

She also said, “We use the majority of the sugar for the malasadas but some of it is used for miscellaneous items like jams and jellies.”

They store the sugar in Dole Cafeteria, but it is probably hid-den in a safe place.

Oldest Canoe in Hawaiian History

By Claire Steinemann & Kelsi Cottrell

Something new just sailed into Kuaihelani: the oldest canoe

in the Hawaiian Islands.Donna Kahakui has been work-

ing in the ancient fishing village of Mokauea, trying to restore the canoe both culturally and physi-

cally. She and other volunteers have been working to preserve this island and try to bring it back to working condition.

Donna Kahakui is the founder of Kai Makana, a nonprofit organiza-tion that has been at the head of the effort to restore Mokauea vil-lage as a cultural education center.

A couple days after the D.O.T. (Department of Transportation) burned down five fishermen’s homes on June 6, 1975, and while the crew was cleaning up the

debris in Mokauea, an ancient Ha-waiian canoe was found. When the crew came upon it, it was lying on its left side, face down in the dirt in a swampy area.

Since the right side was facing up, it was damaged with weather and bug decay.

The canoe was carved from solid koa. This type of carving is the old Hawaiian style of creating a canoe. It’s 22-feet long, 22-inches deep, and 22-inches wide. The canoe shows marks of the old Hawaiian adzes, the kind of tools that are at the Bishop Museum and shows no tooth marks anywhere.

The canoe is in a “V” shape, which indicates that it was for sail-ing.

In July 1975, the canoe was studied and looked at by Dr. Ken-neth Emory, an anthropologist at the Bishop Museum. Artist Herbert Kane and Wallace Froiseth also looked at the canoe. Kane special-izes in Pacific canoes and Wallace Froiseth is a canoe restorer. These men determined that this canoe was over 100 years old and re-garded it as a village artifact.

Froiseth says that it’s a beauty, Kane calls it a priceless antique, and Emory states that it’s one of a kind.

The scary part of this story is that the fires set on June 6th were within a few feet of this canoe. If the fires had spread a yard more Hawaii would have lost this price-less canoe.

There are plans for this canoe to be worked on by Punahou students and have them restore the canoe back to working condition.

Something old is something new: the canoe in Kuaihelani.

Photo by C. Steinemann & K. Cottrell


Just in Case: What Two Sports Would You Combine?

By Marissa Behrens, Zach Chong, & Nina Oishi

“Just In Case” is a brand new feature in the Case Middle

School Courier where we go around school to interview you and ask you a cool question!

Our question for this issue is: “If you could combine any two

sports, what would they be and why?”

Jared Yamura, ‘15: “Football and soccer because I used to play soccer and I love football.”

Madison Endo ‘15: “Volleyball and ice skating because I really like volleyball, and ice skating is fun.”

Alex Kidani ‘15: “Basketball and dodgeball because it would be fun to dribble the ball down the court and then throw it at people!”

Miku Fukuyama ‘14: “Basket-ball and soccer so you could kick

and use your hands without being penalized.”

Ted Uchigakiuchi ‘14: “Boxing and polo, because it would be awe-some to go on a horsie and punch people!”

Natalie Nuding ‘14: “Ping pong and swimming. The ping pong ball would have weights and you would have to hit the ball to the other

person.”Dylan Cunningham ‘13:

“Wrestling and football, because they are the two hardest sports!”

Emma Daily ‘13: “Football and baseball, because it would be crazy cool.”

Ryan Tuiasoa ‘13: “Football and basketball. Because... I said so.”

Kaheke Martinson ‘13: “Bas-ketball and volleyball. You could use a lighter ball for basketball and then you could set it into the basket.”

“Boxing and polo, because it would be awesome to go on a horsie and punch people!”

—Ted Uchigakiuchi, Grade 7

Wie gehts?Mr. Yorck in Germany

By Kelci Keeno

You may know Mr. Yorck as a fun loving Kindergarten

teacher.If you were in Wilcox F, you

might be able to recall a class par-rot named Rainbow. Or you might remember singing songs from “The Beatles” every day.

But besides funny jokes and spirited songs, Mr. Yorck shared his love of culture with his students.

Whether they learned about Korea, China, or Japan, he always taught them about the different ethnicities.

And one country that Mr. Yorck especially loved was Germany.

This past summer, Mr. Yorck went on a fellowship to Germany along with 14-15 other teachers across the U.S.

The fellowship was sponsored by the Geothe-Institut. The Geothe-Institut is the Federal Re-public of Germany’s cultural insti-tution, which operates worldwide.

The institute encourages the study of Germany, and they pro-mote international culture ex-change.

Mr. Yorck toured many different cities in Germany such as, Berlin, Dresden, Stuttgart, and Frankfurt. But he was already familiar with the country saying, “This was my

fourth trip to Ger-many.”

To be al-lowed on the trip, the teach-ers must set up two workshops back home. Mr. Yorck said that you have to come up with a lesson about Germany, which he later showed

to the parents, faculty, and staff at Punahou.

But Mr. Yorck also did more than just the two required workshops. Mr. Yorck said, “I also created a web site about my trip.”

The web site includes different pictures and summaries about his travels around Germany.

The URL for his web site is: iws.punahou.edu/user/jyorck/f/goethe08/goethe08.html

Above photo: behind Mr. Yorck, is the beautiful city of Dresden, Ger-many. At right, the Zwinger Palace is an historical landmark located in Dresden.

Photos courtesy of Mr. Yorck

Top, l. to r., Jared, Madison, Alex, Miku, Ted, Natalie. Below, l. to r., Dylan, Emma, Ryan, Kaheke.

Photos by CMS Staff


What are they doing now?

By Cody Fujii

Since Barack Obama was elect-ed on November 4th, he has

been busy making major decisions about his administration.

The first, and probably the most important of these is his selec-tion of cabinet members (body of advisers).

Here is a compiled list of all his members, their positions, and what their particular job is.

Vice President: Joe BidenOccupation: Senator of Dela-

wareWhat does the VP do? Votes in Senate if there is a tie.Campaigns with president dur-

ing election.In worse cases, takes over

President’s position if he/she dies.Secretary of State: Hillary Clin-

tonOccupation: Senator of New

YorkWhat does Secretary of State

do? In charge of foreign relations.

Barack Obama’s Cabinet

The First Trimester in the Eyes of a Punahou Student

By Mari Otsu

The first thing that pops into the head of a Punahou student

as she wakes up and starts a new day is “I wonder what I’m going to do today?” instead of “Will my mom let me skip a day of school?”

Coming home from school, your mother asks you “So, did you have fun today? What did you do?”

Instead of your regular answer, “nothing,” you say “Great, Mom! Today I had News Journalism and Mr. Wagenseller...” or “Of course I had fun: I love Punahou sooo much!”

Take a tour of Punahou to see what classes and activi-ties students are engaged in.

Walk downstairs into the Ka Honua team space from 6th grade pick-up.

Mr. Agena is busy cor-recting Wordly Wise Tests while the rest of the class is staring at their computer screens, adding the finishing touches to their Camp Timberline iMovie.

Meanwhile, next door to Mr. Agena, Mrs. Teske’s kids are start-ing their “Where Did Camp Tim-berline Take Me?” paper.

Now, skip across the team space to Mrs. Chang’s and Mr. Rigg’s classes. Their rooms are dark and not one thing is moving. The Rigg/Chang kids are at Camp Timberline.

Next, trek down to the wood-shop room and rest your sore legs by sitting down next to the little fish pond outside of the shop class. Inside, you can hear Mr. Wong pa-tiently instructing a frustrated 6th grader to properly wax a beautiful maple wood pen holder.

Although the 6th grader feels frustrated now, she’ll be very grateful that she listened to Mr. Wong when she sees her finished project.

Run back up to the 6th grade Ka Lani O Weinberg team space to catch your friends before their bus comes and see kids chatting and leaning on their lockers. Another successful day has gone by!

There is not one thing people dislike about Punahou. Kids like the not-all-academics feel Punahou gives you and parents like the let-ter days and the not-too-intense grading system.

The First Trimester at Punahou for me was enough fun to last me a lifetime.

It just sped by way too quickly!


By Erika Payne

Barack Obama, John Mc-Cain, Hillary Clinton and Mike

Huckabee all ran for president. In the end, Barack Obama won. Barack Obama will become

president on January 20th, 2009. He will replace George W. Bush, our present president.

But does anyone know what the candidates are doing now, after the election?

John McCain’s former position

was as senator of Arizona. He has decided to go back to

the Senate. Mike Huckabee was the Gover-

nor of Arkansas. He is now on a tour for his new book, Do the Right Thing.

Hillary Clinton has been chosen to become Secretary Of State, replacing Condoleezza Rice.

Mrs. Clinton is currently the junior senator from New York.

She will hold that position until Obama takes office.


The New World Order

Analysis by Keli’i Ke

The New World Order is known as a conspiracy theory in

which there is a massive politi-cal and economical change taking place in another part of the world.

For the last 500 years the West and the United States were domi-

nant in all political, military, and economic changes around the world. Many western powers still remain dominant today, but there are remaining examples of the Old World Order.

During World War II, The British Empire was at its highest point as they controlled nearly a quarter of the entire globe, making the phrase “The sun never sets on the British Empire” more real than ever.

In 1999, when the United King-dom gave over their last territory in Hong Kong, massive politi-cal changes had occurred, but a massive shift then came from the United States.

The United States of America is now the most powerful nation on earth. For the past 50 years, the US has been involved in conflict non-stop in some place around the

world up to the present day War on Terrorism.

For many years the US has been dominant in many areas such as military, oil, resources, and poli-tics. These areas that the United States is dominant over have never been challenged by a foreign power...until the present day.

In the new millennium, many second or third world nations are beginning to flourish, even places once unimaginable like Brazil and China. Places which were thought to never rise economically are sud-denly finding that they are sitting on supplies that are needed for our crippled economy.

Leading production factories are no longer found in the West, but in China.

The World’s Tallest building is located in the Middle Eastern/Asian regions.

The largest militaries are being found in Russia and China.

However many nations flourish in new-found wealth, many nations also suffer as well.

Many books, like Fareed Za-karia’s The Post-American World, detail how the world’s power is shifting from the West to the East.

Leading financial centers like In-dia can be seen as growing larger every day while the United States is suffering a recession so bad, many believe this could be another Great Depression.

Nations like Iraq are finding new wealth as the US Government sends millions or possibly billions of dollars to turn a government that was ruled under a violent regime into a democratic republic. The money, however, should have been used to aid our own economy as banks close, and people are los-ing jobs.

Around the World in Five Hours:The New Hyper-X

By Zackary Dang & Johnny Richardson

The Hyper-X recently broke the record for being the fast-

est air-breathing jet plane after it traveled at a hypersonic speed of seven times the speed of sound. That’s about 5,000 miles per hour. At this speed you could get around the world flying along the equator in less than only five hours.

The Hyper-X is an unmanned because it would be really un-comfortable since it flies in hyper speed. This experimental aircraft is just 12 feet long.

It achieves hypersonic speed using a special sort of engine known as a scramjet. Engineers have been experimenting with this type of engine since the 1960s.

For an engine to burn fuel and produce energy, it needs oxygen. A jet engine, like those on passen-ger airplanes, gets oxygen right from the air. A rocket engine typi-cally goes faster but has to carry its own supply of oxygen.

A scramjet engine goes as fast as a rocket, but it doesn’t have to

carry its own oxygen supply. A scramjet’s special design al-

lows it to extract oxygen from the air that flows through the engine. It does so without letting the fast-moving air put out the burning flames.

However, a scramjet engine works properly only at speeds greater than five times the speed of sound.

A booster rocket carried the Hyper-X to an altitude of about 100,000 feet for its first test flight. The aircraft’s record-beating flight lasted just 11 seconds.

In the future, engineers predict, airplanes equipped with scram-jet engines could transport cargo quickly and cheaply, to the dif-ferent places around the world. Hypersonic pilots could carry pas-sengers anywhere in the world in just a few hours.

Out of the three experimental Hyper-X air crafts built for NASA, only one is now left. The agency has plans for another, 11-second hypersonic flight. This time it will be 10 times the speed of sound.

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cles/20040407/Note3.asp


Who will rule in this New World Order?.

Photo from windows.ucar.edu


She told us that Cantastic Day combined the ideas of the Impact Club members, all 70 and more of them.

She has been helping out with the Impact Club for two years.

She said that she is very happy that Cantastic Day happened, and she is especially thankful to the teachers who supported her all the

way, and the supervisors as well. Mrs. K-C stated, “As long as

the students have fun and enjoy it, I will too. The purpose of this whole thing is to help others in need.”

The students had a lot of fun on Cantastic Day and many students willingly helped deliver cans from the courts to the Luke Center.

…continued from page 14Fantastic Cantastic

Defense Secretary: Robert Gates

Occupation: Defense Secretaryfor George W. Bush.What does the Defense Secre-

tary do? Advises the president on pro-

tecting the country.Attorney General: Eric HolderOccupation: Writer, Works at

Justice Department, Member of many foundations.

What does Attorney General Do?

In charge of the Department of Justice.

National Security Adviser: James Jones, Jr.

Occupation: Assessing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

What does National Security Adviser Do?

Advises president on foreign policy.

Treasury Secretary: Timothy Geithner

Occupation: Works at New York Federal Department.

What does Treasury Secretary Do?

Is the chief financial officer of the country.

Chief of Staff: Rahm EmmanuelOccupation: Congressman of

IllinoisWhat does Chief of Staff do?Coodinates the activities of the

White House staff.A large portion of this informa-

tion is from http://time.com/

When you look at the Earth today, you see that the world is in trouble.

Nations in Africa are suffering genocide, and near anarchy.

Asia is suffering from human rights violations and pollution.

South America, drug cartels are multiplying.

In the Middle East, the nations are suf-fering from war and religious terrorism.

Europe, is looking down as economic troubles increase and new violence contin-ues.

North America is suffering from eco-nomic unemployment.

India is under ter-rorist attack with over 100 dead.

The United Nations is obsolete as they fail to bring peace and order to the crum-bling world as resolu-tions are continuously vetoed by the original five members of the UN: China, Russia, Britain, France, and the US.

All hopes are being dashed for international interests. No matter the cost, or no matter the loss of lives.

In the 20th Century, the West was unchallenged in economics military and political force. Now in the 21st Century, Russia is power-ful in its nuclear stockpiles from the Cold War and even Iran is

put under question as they desire nuclear technology.

And human rights violations go unchecked just as in the earlier genocides in Cambodia, Iraq, Rwanda, Bosnia, and Darfur. New outbreaks, causing more cruelty and deaths far greater than the number of lives lost in the Holo-caust in World War II, were re-cently reported in CNN’s “Scream Bloody Murder” hosted by CNN chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour.

In a study the Carnegie Endow-ment for International Peace has discovered that by the year 2035, China’s economy will be greater than that of the United States at the time.

And by 2050, China’s Economy will be twice the US Economy at that time. The East seems to evolve in a new age of Capitalism. And when in the past 60 years the United States asked the world to open up to capitalism, they did not realize that it could lead to their own downfall.

As global power shifts from the west to the east, many questions remain.

Will The US return to its former glory? Will the world get out of the economic recession? Will the West fight for dominance in all cat-egories? Should we have worried about this problem years ago? If the East becomes dominant, will the West ever regain its power? If so, when?

And finally the question many people around the world have been asking themselves.... Who will rule in this New World Order?

…continued from page 54Obama’s Cabinet

…continued from page 64New World Order


Reinventing Entertainment

By Zoe Robinow

Think of a vibrant, exotic cir-cus, except only people are in

it. No animal features at all—only amazing acrobats showing off their incredible skills.

These gravity-defying stunts include a ballet on bungee cords,

the climbing of bamboo poles, trapezes, and various balancing acts.

Cirque du Soleil’s Saltim-banco show performed at the Neil Blaisdell Arena from October 30 to November 16.

Here in Hawaii, we have a local company that is similar to the Montreal-based group, called Cirque Hawaii. This was the first time Cirque du Soleil has performed here.

Cirque du Soleil, which means “Circus of the Sun” in French, was established in 1984. Since then, nearly 60 million people worldwide have had the pleasure of at-tending their shows.

The founder, Guy Lalib-erté, was born in Quebec

City in 1959. A stilt walker, accordion player, and fire-eater himself, he recruited and trained various street performers to take part in his innovative idea.

Cirque du Soleil first performed in America in 1987. We Reinvent the Circus made its U.S. debut at the Los Angeles Festival.

In 1990, Nouvelle Expérience opened and made an extensive stay in California. Also, We Rein-vent the Circus started Cirque du Soleil’s European fame.

In 2004, Cirque du Soleil set the Guinness World Record when they had 544 stilt walkers in the same place at the same time.

There have been and currently are twenty-four shows, both tem-porary and touring, presented by Cirque du Soleil.

Seventh & eighth grade music teacher Marlene Patton was one of the thousands of people who attended Saltimbanco this past November.

“The acrobatics were phenom-enal,” raved Ms. Patton. “They kept you on edge. It kept you wonder-ing about what was coming next.”

Not only does Cirque du Soleil have live performers, but they also have their own musicians, includ-ing a drummer, a keyboardist, and a vocalist.

“The singer was wonderful. She was so beautiful and she had a gorgeous tone. At first, I thought the music was pre-recorded because it sounded so rich and beautiful,” said Ms. Patton.

When asked whether she thought another Cirque du Soleil show should come to Hawaii, she exclaimed, “Yes! Absolutely. There are many other shows besides Sal-timbanco, and it would be fabulous if more came.”

Cinderina and the Corridors of Power

By Halsey Smythe

The Punahou Theatre has pre-sented us with many fabulous

plays, but not many are as inven-tive and creative as Cinderina and the Corridors of Power.

Performed by 7th and 8th grade students of the Punahou Junior

School, this play features a crazy story about a girl named Cinderi-na, her hateful stepsisters, an evil duchess and some good cake.

This play hap-pens to feature many other crazy characters such as an insane chef, a handsome prince, a stubborn queen, and a fa-therly genie. The prince, played by Ryan Quaken-

bush, is required to find a bride to wed on his 21st birthday so that he can become King.

His mother, the queen, played by Maile Blume, ends up hosting a royal cake competition to find the perfect cake for his birthday, with the prize being the Prince’s hand in marriage.

Cinderina, played by Annelise Yee, is a different version of Cin-

derella, but with a modern twist. She may not have much wealth, but she shows us that with a little help from our friends, anything is possible.

I had the pleasure of inter-viewing the director of Cinderina, Heather Taylor, a newbie at direct-ing plays.

She has had much experience with musicals in local theatres, but has never actually gotten to direct a play herself.

What she had to say about the cast was all good.

“They were great kids. We all had a really fun time and the end result was just fantastic,” said Ms. Taylor.

She added that, “The hardest part about directing a play like this, with few main characters, was having a limit on the num-ber of kids that we could put in the play. There were lots of kids that tried out and it was difficult to have to choose between all the great actors and actresses.”

Along with getting this inter-view, I got the chance to see Cinderina and the Corridors of Power front row (along with my classmates).

In my opinion, it was an enter-taining play with an enchanting story line and wonderful characters and absurd moments.

This “fractured fairytale” was definitely worth seeing and one of my new favorites!

Members of Cirque du Soleil show off their balance and strength as they perform on bamboo poles.

Photo from the Cirque du Soleil webiste.

Pound cake? The Prince (Ryan Quakenbush) attacks a concrete-laced cake while the Chef (Christo-pher Mooney) and the rest of the court looks on. Photo courtesy of Punahou Communications


Opinion by Chris Mihara

What’s the new big thing now-adays? TV is your answer.

The TV is a box that plays shows, movies, commercials, and news.

Yes, it’s good fun to watch, but look at the kids nowadays: 75% of

America is becoming obese, and 100% is expected in the future.

The cause of this is apparently TV.

When people watch TV they become mind-less zombies. They get addicted to it, and therefore they can’t get enough.

TV is the nowaday morphine.

Obesity is happen-ing because instead of going outside and staying active, people rather watch TV.

Sure, the news is okay and all, but did you ever see the other

things there are on TV? There are some inappropriate TV

shows that are infecting the minds of the young.

Violence on TV tells the young

that violence is okay; that’s why there is so much violence in school now days.

According to KidsHealth, two-thirds of infants and toddlers watch a screen an average of two hours a day.

Kids under age six watch an average of about two hours of screen media a day, primarily TV and videos or DVD skids.

Teens 8 to 18 years spend near-ly four hours a day in front of a TV screen and almost two additional hours on the computer (outside of schoolwork) and playing video games.

Another bad thing on TV is the characters.

When kids see characters smok-ing and drinking beer, they think that it’s okay, so therefore they start doing it.

Also food ads make kids want it very bad, but that’s what the food owners want.

They want kids to think their food is good and healthy when it is actually really bad for them.

Studies show that when kids watched less TV, they lost weight.

So turn off the TV and get ac-tive, and if you’re a parent, set a good example by limiting your own TV time.

TV Affecting the Young

A New Generation of Phones:The iPhone 3G

By Luke Auten & Hari Annamalai

Are you looking for phone that has an iPod, the Internet,

and wireless technology? If your answer is yes, the iPhone 3G is for you.

It costs $199, the cheapest you can get with all of the little itty-bitty features that make this an

awesome phone. Plus, this is $200 less

than Apple’s original iPhone ($399).

It is a combination of three products similar the previous phone: a phone, an iPod, and a desktop computer.

Now let’s talk about the features of this exotic phone.

First of all, why is it even called an iPhone 3G? Why not just… an iPhone 2?

They call it an iPhone 3G because it has 3G speed to surf the web, download e-mail, get directions, watch

videos, etc., even when you’re on a call.

It makes it possible to do these things when you’re on the go.

Another cool feature is an ac-celerometer.

What’s an accelerometer? It’s probably something that measures how fast the phone is going?

Yeah, right! It’s actually a built-in system that detects the move-ment when you rotate the phone from portrait to landscape view.

It changes the display accord-ingly, so that you can see the en-tire width of a page, photos in the proper view, or control a game, using only your movements.

Lost? Use the GPS on your phone to get where you need to be. When you are outside, the phone should be able to connect to a GPS satellite.

But if you’re inside without a clear line to a satellite, the phone finds a Wi-Fi hot spot. If you are not in the range of a Wi-Fi tower, the phone uses cellular towers.

Firefox lovers, bad news for you, it seems as if you have to switch to Safari when you get the iPhone 3G.

Safari is the most advanced web browser ever even with a portable device. Plus, with 3G speed and Wi-Fi access you can browse faster than ever.

You can sync your bookmarks from your Apple computers or even your PC. It has Yahoo and Google search built-in.

It also has two small but intel-ligent sensors built into the phone. The first sensor is the Ambient Light Sensor. It automatically brightens the display when in sun-light or a bright room and dims it in dark rooms.

The other sensor is called a Proximity Sensor. Imagine if you’re on a call and you lift the phone up to your ear. All the displays are still viewable. You accidentally touch the screen and the call goes dead.

This sensor turns off the display to save power and prevents ac-cidental touches.

There is too much to tell you so we’ll just leave it at that. Find more details about the iPhone 3G, at your local Apple store in either Royal Hawaiian, Kahala, or at Ala Moana.


Time to Get into the Holiday Spirit with Doughnut Snowman

By Raychel Justice & EJ Kim

Let’s get into the holiday spirit with Doughnut snowmen.

Get that “goodie” smell into your house for this special time of year.

Get together with friends and family to make a yummy treat. You can even give them as a gift to your friends and enjoy them together!!

How to make...Gather the following recipe

ingredients:Small powdered doughnuts• Powdered doughnut holes• Decorator’s gel• Pretzel or potato stick• Haviland Thin Mint• Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups•

Step #1: First, set a powdered doughnut hole atop another pow-dered donut hole. For a taller ver-sion, use a pretzel stick or potato stick to secure the second dough-nut on top of the first.

Step #2: Then get to your creative side and use some deco-

rator’s gel to add a face, buttons, and a carrot nose. If the gel won’t stick, try to smooth the powder with a dab of water first to make it perfect.

Step #3: To give the final touches, add a top hat to a shorter snowman, stick a small piece of a pretzel or potato stick through a Haviland Thin mint and into a Re-ese’s peanut butter cup miniature, then secure the hat in place on the snowman.

Step #4: Place both snowmen onto a powdered sugar plate to show snow. Sit down and enjoy your treat with friends and family around you.

We hope you make these won-derful yummy snowmen. One of us made them with our family and the treats were super good.

But you definitely have to pull out that creative side in you in order for it to come out with a cute and delicious snowman.

Thank you to familyfun.com. A great place for recipes for the family. For more recipes check the site out.

Gingerbread Houses! Yum!

By Bailey Monick & McKenna Hanzawa

Without all of the expenses of real houses, you can get

a gingerbread house, and if you can’t live in it, at least you can eat it! You’ll enjoy making it, and have a tasty snack after!

Many people think of a ginger-bread house as a decorative ac-cessory or just a treat. It may be that, but there’s more to it.

The spice, ginger, originated in Indo-Malaysia around 2000 B.C. The ginger root was believed to calm the stomach, or help avoid

getting colds. Rich Greek families sailed

out to the Isle of Rhodes to get spiced honey cakes.

Pilgrims and soldiers from the 11th century introduced this spice to the Europeans. The Europeans made ginger candy with this spice. About two hundred years follow-ing this date, bread crumbs were added to this assortment and, yes, the gingerbread was born.

In America, this gingerbread became very popular after very wealthy people fed it to their guests. As we know today, you can create gingerbread men and women—and gingerbread houses.

All you need, of course, is gingerbread! You can also use a variety of candies to decorate your gingerbread. There are a lot of common everyday candies that

How to Make Yorkshire Pudding

By Ryan Kortvelesy

It’s time for some Christmas/winter snacks that are very

tasty and don’t take all day to cook.

Yorkshire pudding is a great early winter snack that takes only 15-30 minutes to make.

Though it may sound like a type of pudding, it’s actually sort of like a very soft, puffy, irregular, biscuit.

These biscuits are an English food.

In fact, it is even mentioned in the first Harry Potter book:

”Harry’s mouth fell open. The dishes in front of him were now piled with food.

“He had never seen so many things he liked to eat on one table: roast beef, roast chicken, pork chops and lamb chops, Yorkshire pudding...”

Anyway, enough talk.

Here’s the recipe:3/4 cup flour1/2 tsp. salt2 eggs1 cup. milk4 tbsp. oilBeat flour, salt, eggs, milk to-

gether until very smooth, scraping the bowl occasionally. Refrigerate 2 hours or longer. Heat oven to 450 degrees. Measure oil into 8 x 8 x 2 inch square Pyrex pan. Heat for 2 minutes. Pour batter into pan and bake for 20-30 minutes. Do not open door.

Serve immediately.When fresh from the oven, good

Yorkshire pudding is a puffy irregu-lar shaped golden mass, unlike any other baked food.

On standing a few minutes, the surface settles more or less evenly with the pan and when cut the outer crust is tender and crisp but in center it is soft and custardy.



Christmas Trees, Real or Fake

By Natalie Nuding

Shall we get a real tree or a fake one?

That is the question so to help here are some facts to help you make your decision!

First of all, real Christmas trees give off a pine scent. Pine is the scent that reminds people of Christmas.

Another point is picking out your Christmas tree.

What would you rather do? Go to Wall-Mart and pick a Christmas tree that comes out of a box or go to a Christ-mas tree farm and pick out a fresh Christ-mas tree?

Real Christ-mas trees are a lot better for the environment also, an acre of Christmas trees provides for the daily oxygen require-ments of 18 people, and they provide habi-tats for animals.

They also re-move dust and pol-len from the air.

Fake Christmas trees contain PVC’s.

PVC’s are some of the most

toxic man-made chemicals known. When released into air or water,

they enter the food chain, where they accumulate in fatty tissues of animals and humans.

They are potential risk for cancer; they damage immune systems, impairing children’s development. On the other hand fake Christmas trees can work too. Artificial Christmas trees require no water.

Some artificial trees are pre lit so you don’t need to

put them up or take them down.

Have you ever wondered who made the first fake Christmas tree?

The Addis Brush Company created the first artificial-brush

trees, using the same machinery that made

their toilet brushes! The Addis “Silver Pine” tree

was patented in 1950. The Christmas tree was designed to have a revolving light source under it—colored gels allowed the light to shine in different shades as it revolved under the

tree. Fake Christmas trees are great:

they can also double as a toilet brush. Just remember to take the ornaments off first.

Winter Break By Fiona Lynch

Winter Break is coming really soon!

A lot of people will be going on trips, while others will just hang around at home.

Either way, holidays are very busy!

Many people aren’t going on trips but, they are doing some-thing special.

Bridgette Dodge, 12, 6th grade, is go-ing to make candy cane cookies.

But some people are just spending time with their family.

Like Kaitlyn Yonamine, 11, 6th grade, who is just go-ing to stay home with her family.

And Raychel Justice, 12, 6th grade, who says, “I spend a bonding time with my loving family.”

Other people go to a nice place to just relax and have fun.

Stephanie Downing, 12, 6th grade, is going to the beach.

Michelle Nagata, 11, 6th grade, she is going to go to the beach or movies just to relax.

Of course, some people are going on trips.

Bailey Monick, 11, 6th grade is heading out. “I’m going to Flor-ida,” she said.

Some people are visiting fam-ily. Mckenna Hanzawa, 11, 6th grade, is going to visit and stay with her cousin.

There are a lot of fun and spe-cial things to do on winter break, but no matter what you’re doing, have a wonderful break!

Happy holidays!

you can use in your gingerbread house. Candies like M&M’s, pret-zels and red vines.

Sometimes if you want to get really fancy with your gingerbread, you can even make gingerbread people. All you need is a cookie cutter shaped like a gingerbread man.

Of course no gingerbread house

is complete without FROSTING!I’m sure that everyone has

heard the story of Hansel and Gre-tel; two small children who get lost in the woods.

At the end of the story they find a gingerbread house.

As you can see gingerbread is part of our history, just like these two children!

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The Addis Brush Company created the first artificial-brush trees, using the same machinery that made their toilet brushes!


Top Five Christmas Gifts for Kids

By Michelle Nagata & Stephanie Downing

What do you really want for Christmas?

If you can’t decide, here are the top five Christmas gifts for kids to get you started on your wish list!

Ryan Kortvelesy, a sixth grade student, wishes for the first book in The Seems series.

“It’s no good to have the sec-ond book if you don’t have the first,” says the bookworm.

Eleven year old E.J. Kim has already written her wish list, and on it in bold letters states, “Green iPod loaded with Rihanna songs.”

Pre-teens have many different opinions than younger children.

Here are the top five Christmas gifts kids are to die for.

Number one: electronic

games. Who doesn’t love to play? The D.S., Wii and P.S.P. are very popular, especially when coming with games.

Number two: The Hannah Montana and HSM singing dolls are enjoyed by younger kids ages 5 to 10. You can sing and dance along to the music. Doesn’t that sound like fun?!

Number three: The Doll With A Musical Potty is a great way for toddlers to learn to be potty trained—a family favorite. Doll houses are great for going along with this interesting gift.

Number four: Of course, iPods, cell phones and cameras are to-tally “in” for ‘tweens. They allows them to chat and have fun with their friends.

Number five: Clothes and bags make ‘tween girls thrilled. A few brands are Hollister, Roxy, Hara-juku Lovers and Tokidoki.

Top Five Worst Gifts for Christmas and Why

By EJ Kim and Raychel Justice

It is Christmas!!! You rush down the stairs and run up to the

tree. You look down and see a huge box embroidered with Christ-mas colors of red and green.

A slight smile appears on your face and you are trying to stop yourself from exploding with ex-citement.

You attack the box with power, shredding the wrapper into tiny pieces.

The time has come. You lift the lid off the box with great care and open it up.

To your surprise, the box contains a PAIR OF SOCKS! You are infuriated. For Christmas you look for toys and candy.

NOT SOCKS!!!Gift buyers, have

you ever wondered what not to get others for Christmas?

Well, here are your answers.

Top 5 Worst

Christmas Gifts for All Middle Schoolers:

Gift #1: Underwear and socks—because no

one can see them and it is some-thing you cannot have fun with. Who cares about what underwear looks like? Not us...

Gift #2: Store-bought cards. They take no real thought or ef-fort. They are made by someone else, not you... Who can’t go to the store and just buy a card?

Gift #3: Outgrown things like easy chapter books, Barbie dolls, or, for boys, action figures. We have outgrown these things years ago and it can be embarrassing to have others see these things.

Gift #4: Cash. On regular days, we would love cash. But on Christmas, we hope for things we can play with that instant. Not having to go shopping for it. A present is more mean-ingful.

Gift #5: Clothes. it depends who you are because girls tend to like these things, compared to boys. We all have differ-ent tastes.

Although there are some things we don’t prefer for Christmas, we kids are still

thankful and ap-preciate any gift. It is the thought

that counts.But, please, no socks!


Nutcracker in Action! By Bridgette Dodge & Kaitlyn Yonamine

You might have heard about The Nutcracker, a dance per-

formance put on each year by the Hawaii Ballet Theatre.

Many of Punahou’s dancers, grades Kindergarten through 12,

are in the show each year. To get some more information about this show, we inter-viewed Mrs. Charlys Ing, the director of this production and head of our Dance School, for some behind scenes informa-tion.

Mrs. Charlys Ing has been directing the production of the Nutcracker for 28 years.

She tries to make each year’s show better, but this time it seems as though the dancers are making a bigger effort to work on their tech-nique of dance.

“My favorite part of making this show is seeing how my dancers grow and improve each time they return to do a role,” Mrs. Ing said.

When asked which character is her favorite in the show, Mrs. Ing replied, “It matters on who’s danc-ing the part. I enjoy developing characters, through understanding

and expressing music.” Mrs. Ing helps her students to

grow in their performances. One of her performers, Bridgette

Dodge said, “Mrs. Ing is a very exact teacher, and helps me to grow every year in my dances.” Another Punahou student, Melissa Miura, said, “Mrs. Ing really knows what she’s doing, and helps us all to learn.”

The Nutcracker requires a lot of work to be put into it: all of the dances, dozens of characters and hundreds of costumes, and just putting on the show! But what is The Nutcracker about?

First of all, it’s a ballet, as you must know. But there’s more to the story. The Nutcracker is about a girl who falls into the hands of a Nutcracker, except this Nutcracker comes alive! There are soldiers and mice, not to mention some great dance numbers, so it has a little more action to it.

Go check out the show at Lee-ward Community College. Show times included December 13 at 2:00 p.m., and 7:30 p.m., Decem-ber 14 at 4:00 p.m., and this week, December 20 at 1:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m.!

Get your tickets today. Some shows might already sold out.

The Invention of Hugo Cabret: Should I Read It?

Review by Alison Rhatigan

If you are wondering which book to read, consider reading

The Inven-tion of Hugo Cabret.

Full of inter-esting, detailed pictures, this book is a good read for someone who likes mystery, secrecy, and a curious plot.

Published in March, 2007, the author, Brian Selznick, is the writer as well as the illustrator. All of his pictures are in pencil, and express emotions and differ-ent perspectives.

Out of a stunning 526 pages, 284 of them are pictures. The pic-tures tell the story as if you were actually there.

The book has won various awards, including the Caldecott award which is awarded annually to the artist of the most distin-guished children’s picture book.

It also won the New York Times best illustrated book of 2007, The National Book Award Finalist, and the 2007 Quill Award Winner.

The story takes place in Paris, France, during 1931, and focuses on the lives of two children, both without real parents.

A mysterious machine called an

automaton is Hugo’s last link to his dead father, and he is desperate to fix it, although it is badly burned from the same fire that took his

father’s life.When he finds out that Isabelle,

a mysterious girl, holds the key that can get the automaton to work, he is desperate to get the key himself.

Another unusual character in the book who does not appear often in children’s books is George Melies. He was a famous movie maker from the 1880s to the 1920s. He made the world’s first science fic-tion movie, A Trip to the Moon.

Other books by Brian Selznick are: The Houdini Box, which he both wrote and illustrated, and he illus-trated other books like Frindle.

For more information on The In-vention of Hugo Cabret, go to www.theinventionofhugocabret.com.

From a previous Hawaii Ballet Theatre production.

Photo courtesy of Hawaii Ballet Theatre


Twilight Review Review by Jackie Emley & Sara Olderr

Twilight: book, movie, phe-nomenon. This wildly popular

book is been turned into a movie, with all this excitement, people are dressing up as characters, actors and actresses are being shot into fame.

Robert Pattinson (Ed-ward Cullen) has bitten Tyra Banks and scared away Heidi Klum with his hair. Kristen Stew-art (Bella Swan) has risen to another level of fame, with people dressing like her. Right now, she is going out with Michael Arangano from Sky High.

The movie was said to be both worse and better than the book. To get our own reviews, we turned to 14 ran-dom Punahou students in the 7th grade and all

of them said that they liked the book.

Twilight’s original story line is by Stephenie Meyer and centers around a 17-year-old teenager, Is-abella Swan, or, Bella. Her mother, Renee, and father, Charlie, di-vorced each other when Bella was very little and lived with Renee until she remarried. Renee’s new husband, Phil, was a professional baseball player who travels a lot, so Bella decided to spend some quality time with Charlie in Forks, Washington.

She attends Forks High School and meets some new friends, such

as Mike, Eric, Ben, Tyler, Jes-sica, Lauren, and Angela. It turns out that there’s a dramatic love triangle—or love “octagon”—which eventually turns some friends against each other (Note: this is not included in the movie.)

Bella then meets Edward Cullen in her Chemistry class. He gives her a ferocious stare and scoots as far away from her as possible. It is soon revealed, from Edward him-self, that he’s a vampire and that he wants to eat Bella physically, but emotionally, he’s in love with her.

One of the people that we in-terviewed stated, “I love the way the author writes and how she describes the characters—the plot is totally awesome. And… Edward Cullen dazzles me.”

Most of the other people said that they like Twilight because it is unique and is packed with action and romantic-drama. Two 7th grad-ers said, “Because it’s Twilight!” which shows that Twilight may be a lot of people’s favorite book.

When asked what these Punahou 7th graders expected in the movie (if it would be as good, better or worse then the book), they all said that it would be worse. One of them stated, “Well, they are cutting out scenes and the Bella actor looks odd. Robert Pattinson makes Edward look emo/depressed. But I still can’t wait to see the movie.”

Other 7th graders said the same thing in shorter versions; some others also said that they have extremely high expectations for this movie.

Movie Review:High School Musical 3: Senior Year

Review by Jennifer Ha & Noel Lee

Hey all you crazed High School Musical fans! We know you’ve

waited a long time for the final chapter of the Disney phenome-non, the one, the only, High School Musical 3: Senior Year!

We thought that the movie was a satisfying end to the series, be-cause the plot surrounded the fact that it was senior year, and that they would soon part.

The whole “problem” of the movie was that Gabriella was moving on to her academic career and she had to accept that she and Troy were going their separate ways. In the end, they come up with a compromise for that ‘hap-pily ever after’ ending.

What we liked was that in this movie, the plot included many characters and the movie didn’t just involve Troy and Gabriela and their problems. Many new characters were introduced and incorporated into the plot. In the end, they all sort of came together for the final number, which was a good way to close the series.

We both agree that it was much better than High School Musical 2, however, we thought that nothing was exceptional about the movie,

and it could definitely have been better in some parts. It might ap-peal more to a younger audience.

The sound track, we thought, was the worst among all three movies. The track, “Walk Away”, performed by Gabriella, was confusing and didn’t set the right mood. We thought it was rather upbeat and cheerful for a song that was meant to portray a sad, miserable girl. We also agree that the song, “The Boys are Back” was kind of awkward.

However, we did like some of the tracks, including Gabriella and Troy’s duet, “Can I Have This Dance”. It was sweet and roman-tic, yet it wasn’t too mushy-gushy.

We interviewed two seventh graders for their opinions on the movie, and they both said that they enjoyed it very much.

“I liked, it was good!” exclaimed Hannah Broderick, “It was roman-tic and had good songs. But the guys’ acting was kind of weird though.”

Claire Steinemann had a similar response. “I thought it was really good and cute! I liked it a lot,” she said.

All in all, High School Musical 3 was a satisfying end to the Wildcat journey!



Beard Papa Cream Puffs

By Ari Hashimoto & Kylie Popovich

When you think of cream puffs, you think of the little

frozen ones at Costco. But have you ever had a real one? The defi-nition of a cream puff is a baked puff of cream-puff dough that is

hollow, usually filled with whipped cream or cooked puffs.

At Beard Papa stores, they sell real cream puffs. Beard Papa start-ed when an old baker who had a fluffy white beard in Japan wanted to make a special des-sert for the people in his village.

While stroking his white beard that every-one loved, he came up with the idea to make a cream puff that had the fluffiest filling ever. His filling was made with

vanilla custard cream and whipped cream.

The town loved his cream puffs.

Soon he started to sell his cream puffs all over the world. And now there are Beard Papa stores in seven locations on Oahu; Ala Moana, Hawaii Kai, Ewa Beach, Pearl City, Salt Lake, and Kuhio.

If you looking for the store and can’t find it, look inside the near-est Foodland store.

Their signature flavors are va-nilla, chocolate, coffee, and green tea.

Every week they have flavor of the week. If you plan on going December 15 - December 21, the flavors of the week are pumpkin and caramel.

Other flavors they have are Earl Grey Tea and strawberry.

Some of the other items they have are breakfast puffs, fresh pita sandwiches, and hot turkey puffs.

We recommend the pear dream puffs. It’s a pear folded into whipped vanilla cream custard, sprinkled with cinnamon and all-spice.

So next time you’re at Ala Moana or in Hawaii Kai go and get Beard Papa cream puffs.

Regular and chocolate covered cream puffs in the signature yellow box.

White Rabbit:A Sweet Treat or a Deadly Poison?

By Melissa Miura

White Rabbit Creamy Candies. A candy that most everyone

knows and loves. Sweet, milky, creamy candies wrapped in fun rice paper for every child to enjoy.

BEWARE: Does it say on the back of every candy that several contain more than six times the legal amount of melamine? No.

Melamine is a white crystalline compound that is made by heat-ing cyanamide (a weakly acidic crystalline compound) and is used in the making of plastics.

Melamine was found to have been added in milk formulas in China, sickening what is estimated to be more than 54,000 infants, a number of baby zoo animals, and even killing a small number of children.

Chinese dairy products are now banned across Asia and Africa, and the White Rabbit candies are being recalled in the United States, as well as 50 other countries. Au-thorities in Hong Kong and Sin-gapore have both announced that they have found the potentially deadly chemical in the White Rab-bit Candy.

People are being warned every-where not to buy, sell, or consume these candies, even though they have been on the favorite treats list of children for years. It is also highly advised that no one con-sume any Chinese dairy products.

So why would all of these dairy products have enough amounts of melamine (enough to be deadly) added anyways? Easy. It’s called GREED.

Melamine allows milk to be dil-luted with water, to give it more volume. The so called “protein” levels are built up, and melamine is simply used as a substitute for protein.

Think of it this way; a greedy farmer doesn’t have quite that much protein in the milk he is wanting to sell, which means it will not have as much value as milk with a high level of protein. Let’s say a gallon of his milk is worth $3. Why get only $3 for a gallon when, if he adds a bit more melamine (even more than the legal amount, which, conveniently, he/she “forgot” about) to make it appear as protein, it can pass off as high in protein, and can in-crease the value from $3 to $5?

It’s not honest, and it’s not just “business;” it’s cruel, and just for a little more money on the farmer’s part, some child may die or get seriously ill in just a month or two after his dairy was sold to an un-suspecting mother or father.

Countless health inspectors are on the case of the dairy scandal in China, which is causing a huge cri-sis. But what is the real lesson to this sad little story? He who takes what is more than needed takes from himself.

Stephenie Meyer, author of Twilight, graduated from Bingham University in Phoenix, Arizona, with a bachelor’s degree in English.

She currently lives in Phoenix Arizona with 3 young boys and her husband. She has been in many magazine and newspaper articles and even on a few T.V. shows.

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Menchies Yogurt...What’s Your Mix?

By Sammy Nishiyama & Lizzy Levine

Do you love Yogurtland? Well, if you do, you will definitely

love Menchies Frozen Yogurt. This sweet self-serve treat place

was opened by Kelly Hiraki and Erica Miyabara. They are both Punahou grads. It is located at Ward Warehouse 1050 Ala Moana Blvd. Honolulu, Hawaii 96814. The hours of the store is Sun.–Thu., 11 a.m.–11 p.m., and Fri.–Sat., 11 a.m.–midnight.

Our most popular flavors are cake batter, lychee tart, pineapple tart and our two non-dairy flavors, which are now very berry and orange burst.

Our most popular toppings are mochi, crushed Oreos, strawber-ries, blueberries and mini peanut

butter cups,” says Erica.All you do is get your de-sired sized cup. The sizes vary from small, medium, large.

Next, you choose the flavor of yogurt.

hey have regular yogurt, no sugar added, low carb,

and dairy free. Examples of yogurt are caffe

late, Georgia peach, pumpkin, root beer float , and cake batter.

Toppings include “At the Snack-age Bar” different types of can-dies, granola, peanuts, and cereal.

At the “Chill Bar” they have mochi, brownies, cookie dough,

and fruits and of course the “hot-ties” hot fudge, caramel sauce and much, much more!

Menchies Mix Gear is Menchies merchandise like “Helloo tees” where you can write your own mix on one of those Hello My Mix Is (Hello My Name Is) labels, and your choice of two different de-signs on your back.

They also have a “Color-in-tee” where you color in a design on your Menchies shirt.

Don’t forget the hoodies where it’s mp3 ready and also very styl-ish white baseball caps and bean-ies. Menchies also has great gift ideas such as magnets, temporary tattoos, and stickers.

They offer a special deal to everyone!

If you buy 5 or more gift cards from Menchie’s, you get to choose from either prepackaged yogurt, or a T-shirt of your choice! Isn’t that a great deal. For their prepackaged yogurt, the selection of flavors are never ending!

Menchies awesome yogurt is now open in the following states: Florida, California, Texas, Georgia, Arizona, many more places and coming soon to a lot more states and cities.

One of the owners, Erica, said, “Overall, our goal is not only to sell a quality yogurt product, but also the Menchie’s experience.”

We both give Menchies a rating of 5 stars!

Hungry for Something Hot and Juicy?????

By Lia Mausolf & Taylor Hiyashi

Are you hungry??? If you are you’re reading the right ar-

ticle! Well, if you are, then eat a hot

& juicy hamburger. When you make it, don’t hurry or all the juicy meat will become hard as a rock,

and it might break your teeth. Then you can’t eat the ham-

burger... That would be sad... so

take your time in making the burger. DON’T hurry!

Go down to a super-market and get these

ingredients...

Ingredients:• 4 pounds

ground chuck (beef)

• 4 andouille sau-sages, diced• 1 orange bell pep-

per, diced• 1 Vidalia onion, diced• Worcestershire sauce

• Grilling seasoning • Your favorite barbecue

sauce• About 4 cups sliced

mushrooms, sauteed ahead of time• 16 slices smoked bacon,

cooked ahead of time• 8 thick slices smoked Cheddar• 8 hamburger buns or 16 slices

sourdough toast

Directions:

Preheat a grill to medium-high.Combine chuck with diced

sausage, pepper, and onion. Por-tion off enough meat to make a burger, and shape the meat into a bowl to hold the Worcestershire and grilling seasoning.

Pour just enough Worcester-shire and grilling seasoning into burger bowl and mix well to com-bine. Shape into a patty.

Repeat with remaining meat mixture to make a total of eight burgers.

Place burgers on the grill. Brush the burgers with your favorite barbecue sauce as they cook.

Once they are almost cooked to your desire degree of wellness, divide the following toppings over: the sauteed mushrooms, 2 slices of bacon, and 1 slice of cheese, in that order.

Cook just until cheese is melted and toppings are heated through. Serve burgers on a hamburger bun or sourdough toast.

So hope you have fun making this hamburger... Eat up and en-joy and remember to share with everyone in your family.

A hamburger is also a great party snack...

Toppings:• LettuceTime: 25 min.


Brett Favre By A.J. Muth & Michael Zimmerman

Brett Favre is a national super-star in the world of football.

Brett Favre is a quarterback who played for the Green Bay Packers for 16 years.

Favre is old for an NFL player, almost 40.

During the past 16 years in Green Bay, Favre has played very well: in two Super Bowls, winning one of them against the New England Patriots. He has also set lots of records and has been NFL MVP three times.

This past summer, though, he made a dif-ficult decision. He decided to retire.

When he announced his decision to the press he was very tearful. A

little while later though he decided that he wasn’t done with football. He wanted to come back and play once again. The only problem was that the Green Bay Packers didn’t want him back. The Packers were ready to move on.

Favre and the Packers finally settled on a deal and he was traded to the New York Jets where he is currently playing under head coach Eric Mangini.

So far this year, Brett Favre has played fairly well. The Jets are leading the AFC East with a record of 8 wins and 5 losses. He is still able to perform well with having 421 pass attempts so far this sea-son and 288 pass completions for a total of 2,845 yards.

Brett Favre is likely to retire at the end of this season. He has had a very long and successful career and is considered by some as the best to play the game.

This Years BCS Buster! By Nathan Higa

As another exciting college football season comes to an

end. This year, the Bowl Cham-pionship Series (BCS) consists of four unbeaten teams—three from a non-BCS conference.

The probable BCS busters for this year are the WAC’s Boise

State, Utah, and Ball State.Ball State has an outside chance to prove themselves

despite their weak sched-ule. They can still make

it if Utah and Boise State lose.

The team that is the higher ranked of the three is Utah. But their remaining game is

a tough one against BYU and it’s too early

in the season to pick them as a

BCS Buster.The last time the Utes started

off this well was 2004, the year they were able to receive a BCS berth. After beating BYU in the “Holy War” as they call it in Utah, the Utes have earned a BCS berth.

After winning that game, the Utes have busted into the BCS and earned a date with the Alabama Crimson Tide in the Sugar Bowl.

The Crimson Tide after their heartbreaking loss to Florida in the SEC championship find themselves with the consolation prize of play-ing Utah for the Sugar Bowl.

Boise State, although finishing the season undefeated also, did not receive a BCS berth due to the fact the Utah was ranked higher in the polls.

Although Boise did not receive a BCS berth, their consolation prize

Pro Football Player in the Making, Dalton Hilliard

By Kyle Obana

You may have heard about him. You may have read about him.

You may have seen him around campus and you probably have seen him in ac-tion. But what didn’t you know about this amaz-ing athlete by the name of Dalton Hilliard? Well you’ll find out.

Dalton Hill-iard is the run-ningback/corner back of the first Punahou Football Team ever to win the State Cham-pionship. He also committed to UCLA and plans

on playing football for them.He believes that UCLA is a good

school because if the NFL doesn’t go the way he wants, then he could always take another path

and become suc-cessful in life.

Behind his athletic skills, is a ton of motiva-tion. He stated that he gets most of his motivation from his family and friends because he definitely wants to make them proud.

He also states that he also plays for the younger kids (the fans), be-cause he wants to perform for them.

But though he …continued on page 18


“Work hard in the beginning, because it pays off in the end.”

—Dalton Hilliard, Senior


has much motivation, he biggest role model is his father. The reason for this, is because he grew up without a father but despite this, he became a successful man in the Marines.

This is what taught Dalton to be a man more than a football player.

At home, his mother is the one that stresses the academics while his father is the person that emphasizes his conditioning and weight training.

Dalton’s football career first started when he played for the Garden City Rams when he was small.

As the interview came to a close, I provided him with the question, “If you could say one thing to the student athletes out there, what would you say to them?” He responded, “Work hard in the beginning, because it pays off in the end.”

Did you know?Did you know, that when Dalton

Hilliard has free time, he loves to sing, “Boys to Men” in the shower, at practice with his friends, or just sit in his room and jam with his younger brother Kamden.

His favorite song varies on dif-ferent situations.

When singing it to a girl, it would be “You’re Not Alone”, by Boys To Men.

When getting hyped up before a game, it would usually be some DMX or Ludicris.

So for all of you ladies out there who love “Boys To Men”, Dalton is the man for you.

And the best part of them all, his funniest moment. “My funniest moment was when I got pantsed in the library and someone froze me, and so I had to stay there in my boxers standing in the middle of the library.”

is not that bad. The Poinsettia Bowl pits number 9 Boise State vs Number 13 Tulsa.

According to ESPN this will settle the argument over which conference is better.

The last team that had a chance to bust the BCS was the Ball State Cardinals.

But after a devastating loss to

Buffalo in the MAC championship game, the Cardinals find them-selves in the GMAC bowl against Tulsa.

All these teams had a great sea-son but only one can bust the BCS. Utah will try to represent all of the non-BCS conference teams when they take on the SEC runner-ups Alabama.

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Trees Companyfor the Holly -Daze It only takes a few trees to make us pine for the

holidays. Check out how our school has been spruced up for the season…fir sure.

Photos by CMS Staff

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